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@ Catherine Boone<\/strong>‘s (*)<\/strong> acclaimed work, \u201cMerchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal\u201d<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em> originally published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press, is now available in a paperback edition (317 pp., tables; $48.00 – ISBN-13:9780521030397 | ISBN-10:0521030390).<\/p>\n

@ Lucy Creevey (*), Richard Vengroff (*)<\/strong> & Paul Ngomo, have co-authored \u201cParty Politics and Different Paths to Democratization: A Comparison of Benin and Senegal\u201d, in Party Politics<\/em>, vol.11, n\u00ba 4, pp. 471-493. As they see it, Benin and Senegal represent two successful cases of democratic transition in Africa. They also represent two different paths to that end. This article explores the role of political parties in facilitating these different and successful paths to democratic transitions. In Benin, political parties and political leaders relied on the prevailing patterns of ethno-regional cleavages to structure their strategic interactions, mobilize electoral support and organize competition in legislative and presidential elections. In Senegal, an incremental pattern of institutional reform helped the ruling party retain power while enabling fragmented opposition groups to participate in competitive elections. In the long run, this helped opposition groups develop an effective electoral coalition to defeat the ruling party in presidential and legislative elections and bring about a turnover.<\/p>\n

@ Theodore Trefon (*)<\/strong> has written an article titled \u201cIndustrial logging in the Congo: Is a Stakeholder Approach Possible?\u201d for the South African Journal of International Affairs<\/em>, Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter\/Spring 2006, pp. 101-114.<\/p>\n

@ Claire Andrade-Watkins (*)<\/strong> is the producer\/director of Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican? (A Cape Verdean American Story)<\/em><\/strong>, which has been selected to compete for the Paul Robeson Diaspora Prize at the XX Annual FESPACO (Panafrican Film Festival) opening on Feb. 23, 2007. The film festival, now in its 20th year, is held every two years in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. \u201cSome Kind of Funny Porto Rican?\u201d,<\/em> or simply SKFPR?<\/em><\/strong>, is a feature length documentary that tells the largely unknown story about immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, the second oldest and largest Cape Verdean community in America. Cape Verdeans began arriving in large numbers in the ports of Providence, Rhode Island and New Bedford, Massachusetts in the early 1900s. They crossed the Atlantic aboard packets, small sailing ships to fill the need cheap labor in the waterfronts, textile mills, factories, and cranberry bogs of southeastern New England. Urban renewal in the 1960s and l970s destroyed the tight knit Cape Verdean community bound by family, kinship, language, and seafaring traditions and displaced three generations of Cape Verdeans and their rich culture. The story of this little known community of the African Diaspora addresses many universalities of history, immigration, race relations and urban renewal. Andrade-Watkins is a professor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and president of SPIA Media Productions, Inc., which is dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the history of Cape Verdeans and the African Diaspora.<\/p>\n

# V\u00e9ronique Dimier (*)<\/strong> a publi\u00e9: \u00abN\u00e9gocier avec les \u00abrois n\u00e8gres\u00bb: l\u2019influence des administrateurs coloniaux fran\u00e7ais dans la mise en place d\u2019une politique europ\u00e9enne de d\u00e9veloppement”, in: G. Bossuat & E. Bitch (dir.), L\u2019Europe Unie et l\u2019Afrique<\/em>, Bruxelles: Bruylant, Nomos and Baden, 2006, p. 393-409. Elle a \u00e9galament publi\u00e9 (en anglais): \u201cThree universities and the British elite: a science of colonial administration in the UK\u201d, in: Public<\/em> Administration<\/em>, 2005, n\u00b084, n\u00b02, 2006, p. 337-366; \u201cConstructing conditionality: the bureaucratization of EC development aid\u201d, in: Journal of European Foreign Affairs<\/em>, n\u00b011, 2006, p. 263-280 et (avec M. Mcgeever): \u201cDiplomats without a flag: the institutionalization of the delegations of the European Commission in ACP countries\u201d, in: Journal of Common Market Studies<\/em>, vol. 44, n\u00b03, 2006, p. 483-505.<\/p>\n

# G\u00e9rard Prunier (*)<\/strong> a assur\u00e9 la publication de l\u2019ouvrage collectif intitul\u00e9 \u201cL\u2019\u00c9thiopie contemporaine\u201d<\/em><\/strong> qui vient de para\u00eetre aux \u00c9ditions Karthala (4440 pp.; 32 \u20ac – ISBN 2-84586-736-9). L\u2019ouvrage est co-publi\u00e9 par le Centre Fran\u00e7ais des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE) que Prunier a dirig\u00e9 de 2001 \u00e0 2006.<\/p>\n

# H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Claudot-Hawad (*)<\/strong> a dirig\u00e9 la publication de l\u2019ouvrage collectif \u201cBerb\u00e8res ou Arabes? Le tango des sp\u00e9cialistes\u201d<\/em><\/strong>(Paris, Editions Non Lieu, 2006, 298 p.- 30 \u20ac – ISBN : 2-35270-015-9). Outre l\u2019introduction, elle y apporte un chapitre intitul\u00e9 \u201cQuand l\u2019\u00e9tude des marges devient marginale: r\u00e9flexions \u00e0 partir du \u2018terrain\u2019 touareg\u201d. Pour les d\u00e9tail du contenu de cet ouvrage, voir le site: http:\/\/www.editionsnonlieu.fr\/spip.php?article7<\/a><\/p>\n

(*) Names listed in the GRAF Directory \/ Noms figurant \u00e0 l’annuaire du GRAF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

@ Benedetta Rossi (*)<\/strong> offered a lecture titled \u201cDependence and Independence in the Ader: Articulations of Slavery and Colonialism in Niger\u201d on 8 February, in the Africa Seminar series of the University of London\u2019s Centre of African Studies.<\/p>\n

@ Mamadou Diouf (*)<\/strong> has been hired to lead Columbia’s Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs. Diouf will also become a faculty member in Columbia’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures. In his announcement, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger said: “We are delighted to have someone of Mamadou Diouf’s extraordinary talents and admired scholarship to join us and take on the leadership of our Institute for African Studies. His hiring is an important step toward fulfilling our goal of making Columbia the foremost center for teaching and research (\u2026) on Africa \u2014its history and culture, its politics and economics, its challenges in public health and extraordinary human potential.” Diouf will join Columbia on July 1. He is currently a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Department of History, where he also serves in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.<\/p>\n

@ Patrick Manning (*)<\/strong>, who has left Northeastern University for the University of Pittsburgh, where he now holds an Andrew W. Mellon Professorship of World History, has recently published \u201cCross-Community Migration: A Distinctive Human Pattern\u201d in: Social Evolution and History<\/em> 5, 2 (2006); \u201cHomo sapiens Populates the Earth: A provisional synthesis, privileging linguistic data\u201d in: Journal of World History<\/em> 17, 2 (2006), pp. 115-158; and \u201cInteractions and Connections: Locating and Managing Historical Complexity\u201d in: The History Teacher<\/em> 39, 2 (2006), pp. 1-21. His latest book, \u201cThe African Diaspora: A History through Culture\u201d<\/em><\/strong> has just been published by Oxford University Press (256 pp.; $21.00 Paper \/$45.00 Hardcover – ISBN-10: 0195158156 ISBN-13: 978-0195158151).<\/p>\n

@ Ulf Engel (*) & Robert Kappel (*)<\/strong> have co-edited the second (expanded, updated and revised) edition of \u201cGermany’s Africa Policy Revisited: Interests, images and incrementalism\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. (Muenster & Piscataway, NJ : LIT-Verlag & Transaction Publishers, 2006; 216 pp., 20.90 \u20ac, ISBN 3-8258-5985-1) The book first reviews Germany’s relations with the African continent over the past decades. Secondly, it addresses some crucial factual gaps which characterize the state of research so far. Thirdly, it discusses some of the theoretical and methodological undercurrents of past research. Contributors include Ulf Engel, Robert Kappel and Andreas Mehler(*)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

# Christopher Fomunyoh (*)<\/strong>, qui est directeur pour l’Afrique du National Democratic Institute<\/em>, (Institut national pour la d\u00e9mocratie), un organisme financ\u00e9 par le Congr\u00e8s am\u00e9ricain et bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Washington, a comment\u00e9 dans une interview recueillie par RFI (Radio France Internationale) l’infl\u00e9chissement que l\u2019on peut attendre dans la politique am\u00e9ricaine apr\u00e8s le basculement dans le camp d\u00e9mocrate du S\u00e9nat et de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants, avec ses cons\u00e9quences pour l’Afrique. Selon lui, \u00abon peut s’attendre \u00e0 un changement de politique pour l’Afrique avec l’arriv\u00e9e des d\u00e9mocrates, except\u00e9 dans le domaine de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9.\u00bb On pourra retrouver cette interview (\u00e9mise le 12 novembre 2006) sur le site de RFI \u00e0 l\u2019URL: http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/actufr\/articles\/083\/article_47430.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

EXPRESSIONS OF TRADITIONAL WISDOM<\/h3>\n

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brussels, Thursday 27 \u2013 Friday 28 SEPTEMBER 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, in collaboration with the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the Royal Museums of Art and History, is organizing an international symposium devoted to \u201cExpressions of Traditional Wisdom\u201d of cultures from \u201coverseas\u201d, i.e., Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas including the ancient civilizations of these continents.<\/p>\n

The notion of \u201cwisdom\u201d in the sense of practical wisdom has entered Western civilization through biblical texts. In the Hellenic experience this kind of wisdom received a more structural character in the form of philosophy. In this sense philosophy also reflects one of the expressions of traditional wisdom.<\/p>\n

The following themes have been retained: Expressions of Traditional Wisdom in:<\/p>\n

1. Religion
\n2. Philosophy
\n3. Gender Studies
\n4. The Afterlife
\n5. Family Life
\n6. Justice
\n7. Education
\n8. Power\/Authority Politics
\n9. Contemporary Literature
\n10. Material Culture
\n11. Linguistics
\n12. Health<\/p>\n

For information:<\/em> Prof. Dr Danielle Swinne, Permanent Secretary, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
\nrue Defacqz 1\/3 B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium
\nTel.: (0032) 2 538 02 11 \u2013 Fax: (0032) 2 539 23 53 – E-mail: kaowarsom@skynet.be<\/a><\/p>\n

@ Robert Kappel(*)<\/strong> and Tina Schneidenbach have written a short monograph titled \u201cChina in Afrika: Herausforderungen f\u00fcr den Westen\u201d<\/em> in the latest issue (Nr. 12\/2006) of the series GIGA Focus Global<\/em> published by the German Institute of Global and Area Studies \/ Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Globale und Regionale Studien in Hamburg. This study follows the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation\u201c (FOCAC) held in Beijing November 2006. The GIGA Focus Global<\/em> series offers condensed analyses on topical political, economic or social subjects that are directed towards a broad German-speaking public in the areas of politics, economy, media, and society.<\/p>\n

The document is accessible at: http:\/\/www.giga-hamburg.de\/content\/publikationen\/pdf\/gf_global_0612.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

# Fran\u00e7ois Ibara (*)<\/strong> a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 Brazzaville du 9 au 15 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 deux ateliers sur les capacit\u00e9s \u00e9valuatives en Afrique centrale et de l’Ouest , sur le plan national pour l’atteinte des OMD au Congo. Leurs objectifs respectifs sont: reconnaitre l’importance du suivi et \u00e9valuation dans les politiques de d\u00e9veloppement,s’appropprier du processus, d’une part.De l’autre, pr\u00e9senter aux differentes institutions (Gouvernement,partenaires au d\u00e9veloppement,soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile), le premier draft du plan national pour l’atteinte des OMD.<\/p>\n

@ Achille Mbembe (*)<\/strong> will participate in the 4th annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT), an intensive two-week summer program offered by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) on the campus of the University of California at Irvine August 6-17, 2007. Neither an introductory survey nor an advanced research seminar, SECT functions as a \u2018laboratory\u2019 where participants at all levels of experience can study with scholars at the leading edge of creative theoretical thought. The hallmark of SECT is its attention to both \u2018pure\u2019 and \u2018applied\u2019 modes of contemporary critical theory. The fourth annual SECT, \u201cCartographies of the Theological-Political\u201d, will critically re-think religio-theological strains within disparate traditions of political thought. For more information, go to : www.uchri.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

# Philippe Hugon (*)<\/strong> vient de publier \u201cG\u00e9opolitique de l\u2019Afrique\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006; Collection \u201cG\u00e9opolitique\u201d<\/em>, no.128; 127 pp. 9,00 \u20ac – ISBN-10: 220034676X – ISBN-13: 978-2200346768). Apr\u00e8s un tableau de l’histoire pr\u00e9coloniale et coloniale, cet ouvrage analyse, \u00e0 l’\u00e9chelle du continent mais en insistant sur la diversit\u00e9 des acteurs qui s’y c\u00f4toient, ses champs \u00e9conomiques, sociopolitiques et culturels. Il en explique enfin les d\u00e9fis actuels majeurs : paix et s\u00e9curit\u00e9, enjeux alimentaires, d\u00e9veloppement durable. D\u2019autre part, la 5\u00e8me \u00e9dition de son ouvrage bien connu, \u201cL\u2019\u00c9conomie de l\u2019Afrique\u201d<\/em><\/strong> vient \u00e9galement de para\u00eetre(Paris: Editions \u2018La D\u00e9couverte\u2019, 2006 – Collection: Rep\u00e8res<\/em>; 123 pages; 8,50 \u20ac -ISBN-10: 2707148873 – ISBN-13: 978-2707148872). Il a \u00e9galement r\u00e9dig\u00e9 le chapitre \u2018Afrique\u2019 de \u201cL\u2019Ann\u00e9e strat\u00e9gique 2006\u201d<\/em> publi\u00e9 par l\u2019IRIS (Institut de Relations Internationales et Strat\u00e9giques) aux \u00e9ditions Dalloz et a sign\u00e9 une dizaine d\u2019articles consacr\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019Afrique dans diverses revues.<\/p>\n

# \u00c9lo\u00efse Bri\u00e8re (*)<\/strong> a publi\u00e9 un chapitre intitul\u00e9 \u201cLe Rire des gens d\u2019en bas\u201d dans l\u2019ouvrage dirig\u00e9 par Jozef Kwaterko, \u201cL’humour et le rire dans les litt\u00e9ratures francophones des Am\u00e9riques\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Paris: Eds. L\u2019Harmattan, 2006 – Coll.: Itin\u00e9raires et Contacts de cultures n\u00b036; 198 pages; 19,50 \u20ac -ISBN: 2-296-00242-0). Elle a \u00e9galement particip\u00e9 au \u201cFestschrift f\u00fcr Frederick Ivor Case\u201d<\/em><\/strong> publi\u00e9 sous la direction de Najib Redouane (Paris: L\u2019Harmattan, 2006) sous la forme d\u2019une contribution intitul\u00e9e \u201cQuand la marge atteint le centre: Mongo Beti et le postcolonialisme\u201d.<\/p>\n

# Michel Cahen (*)<\/strong> a publi\u00e9: \u00abA problem\u00e1tica do pluralismo em Mo\u00e7ambique, numa perspectiva hist\u00f3rica comparada\u00bb, in: N. Vidal, J. Pinto de Andrade, \u201cO processo de transi\u00e7\u00e3o para o multipartidarismo em Angola\u201d (Lisbonne, Firmamento<\/em>, 334).<\/p>\n

@ William F. S. Miles(*)<\/strong> published a \u201cLetter from Ouagadougou\u201d in the Antioch Review<\/em> 64 (Winter 2006), pp.99-116. His earlier article, \u201cSocialist Society in the Seychelles\u201d, appeared in the Contemporary Review<\/em>, no. 257 (Dec 2005), pp. 340-350.<\/p>\n

# Le nouveau service<\/strong> \u201cFrance 24\u201d<\/strong> (L\u2019actualit\u00e9 internationale 24h\/24<\/em>) comporte une section \u201cAfrique\u201d que l\u2019on peut visiter sur le site: http:\/\/www.france24.com\/france24Public\/fr\/nouvelles\/afrique.html<\/a> (NB: versions anglaise et arabe disponibles).<\/p>\n

# Apr\u00e8s \u201cVoix sans issue\u201d,<\/em> son premier roman paru chez Actes Sud<\/em> en 2005 et traduit dans une quinzaine de langues,<\/strong> C\u00e9line Curiol (*)<\/strong> vient de publier \u201cPermission\u201d<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> chez le m\u00eame \u00e9diteur.(2006- Broch\u00e9; 252 pages, 7,50 \u20ac – ISBN-10: 2742765484 \/ ISBN-13: 978-2742765485).<\/p>\n

# COLLOQUE JEAN- FRAN\u00c7OIS M\u00c9DARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les 29, 30 et 31 mars, le CEAN\/IEP et la Revue internationale de politique compar\u00e9e (RIPC), organisent un colloque en l\u2019honneur de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois M\u00e9dard: \u00abLe comparatisme \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e des chemins. Autour de l\u2019oeuvre de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois M\u00e9dard: n\u00e9o-patrimonialisme, corruption, gouvernement local, \u00e9change et \u00e9thique politiques \u00bb. Daniel Bach (*), Dominique Darbon (*) et Comi Toulabor (*) sont les responsables scientifiques de ce colloque qui, comme son titre l\u2019indique, est une fa\u00e7on de rendre hommage \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois M\u00e9dard, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 l\u2019an dernier. Parmi les participants: Ren\u00e9 Otayek (*), Michel Cahen (*), Ren\u00e9 Lemarchand (*) ( avec une communication sur \u201cLes avatars du client\u00e9lisme: \u2018warlordism\u2019, \u2018greed\u2019 et l\u2019\u00e9conomie d\u2019affection\u201d), Alice Sindzingre (*) (\u201cThe Posterity of Neopatrimonialism\u201d), et Comi Toulabor (*) (\u201cLes r\u00e9seaux n\u00e9opatrimoniaux en Afrique: la fili\u00e8re franc-ma\u00e7onne est-elle soluble dans les r\u00e9seaux fran\u00e7africains?\u201d) Pour le programme complet, voir: COLLOQUE JEAN- FRAN\u00c7OIS M\u00c9DARD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

# Daniel Bach (*)<\/strong> a publi\u00e9 \u00abNigeria : paradoxes de l\u2019abondance et d\u00e9mocratisation en trompe l\u2019oeil\u00bb dans le n\u00b0 219 (Octobre 2006) de la revue Afrique contemporaine<\/em>, pp. 119-135. Les 11-12 d\u00e9cembre, \u00e0 Hambourg, il a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au German Institute for Global and Area Studies une communication intitul\u00e9e: “Nigeria\u2019s \u2018manifest destiny\u2019: or influence without power” \u00e0 la Conference on \u2018Regional Powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

# Alice Sindzingre (*)<\/strong> a fourni un chapitre intitul\u00e9: “The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal\u201d, dans l\u2019ouvrage collectif dirig\u00e9 par B. Guha-Khasnobis, R. Kanbur et El. Ostrom (eds.), \u201cLinking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Oxford University Press & WIDER, 2006). Avec Machiko Nissanke, elle a publi\u00e9: \u00abInstitutional Foundations for Shared Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa \u00bb, in: African Development Review<\/em>, vol. 18, n\u00b0 3, December 2006, p. 353-391. Elle a \u00e9galement publi\u00e9 quelques chroniques dans le suppl\u00e9ment du journal Le Monde: le Monde de l\u2019\u00e9conomie<\/em>: \u2018La Chine en Afrique : le pire n\u2019est pas s\u00fbr\u2019 (12 d\u00e9cembre 206); \u2018Le darwinisme : une approche de l\u2019\u00e9conomie\u2019, (7 novembre 2006) et \u2018Le retour des politiques industrielles\u2019 (3 octobre 2006). En outre, lors du Huiti\u00e8me Colloque Franco-Japonais de Sciences \u00c9conomiques tenu les 6\u20137 novembre 2006 \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Paris X-Nanterre sur le th\u00e8me \u201cVers une Communaut\u00e9 \u00c9conomique des Pays d\u2019Asie de l\u2019Est\u201d, elle a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 une communication intitul\u00e9e: \u201cForeign Direct Investment and Growth: the Example of Japanese Firms and Investment in East Asia\u201d.<\/p>\n

# Daniel Bach (*)<\/strong> a publi\u00e9 \u00abNigeria : paradoxes de l\u2019abondance et d\u00e9mocratisation en trompe l\u2019oeil\u00bb dans le n\u00b0 219 (Octobre 2006) de la revue Afrique contemporaine<\/em>, pp. 119-135. Les 11-12 d\u00e9cembre, \u00e0 Hambourg, il a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au German Institute for Global and Area Studies une communication intitul\u00e9e: “Nigeria\u2019s \u2018manifest destiny\u2019: or influence without power” \u00e0 la Conference on \u2018Regional Powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

@ Laurent Fourchard (*)<\/strong> opened the inaugural session of the three-day conference of the International Research Group (GDRI) on \u201cGoverning cities in Africa: Laws, local institutions & urban identities since 1945\/ Gouverner les villes d\u2019Afrique: Lois, institutions locales & identit\u00e9s urbaines depuis 1945\u201d<\/em><\/strong> held on 31 January\u20132 February 2007 at the CEAN\/IEP (Institute of Political Science) in Bordeaux. [To see the program of that conference, go to: http:\/\/www.cean.sciencespobordeaux.fr\/prog_conf_gdri.pdf<\/a> ]. This was followed on 5 February by a CNRS-sponsored methodological seminar devoted to \u201cMinorit\u00e9s et \u00e9trangers dans les villes d\u2019Afrique: politiques publiques, pratiques et repr\u00e9sentations<\/em>\u201d, which he coordinated with Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti (IFAS, Johannesburg). A regional IRG\/GRDI seminar on the same topic had been held on 6-17 November 2006 at Stellenbosch University on cities in South Africa and Mozambique. Shortly therafter, on 23 November, at Oxford University\u2019s St Anthony College, Fourchard had read a paper titled: \u201cA new name for an old practice: Vigilante in South-western Nigeria\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

announcements of future events and deadlines should be submitted at least 3 months ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n

les avis ponctuels oU contenant une date-limite doivent etre transmis 3 mois d’avance au moins<\/strong><\/p>\n

# La derni\u00e8re \u00e9dition de l’annuaire du GRAF<\/strong> qui contient les noms, adresses, num\u00e9ros de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone, de t\u00e9l\u00e9copieur et de courrier \u00e9lectronique des membres du GRAF, ainsi que ceux des participants aux colloques de 1994 et de1997 peut \u00eatre d\u00e8s \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent command\u00e9e au prix de US$3.00 (frais d’envoi compris) de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on que les autres publications du GRAF.<\/p>\n

# Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (*)<\/strong> participait \u00e0 la journ\u00e9e organis\u00e9e par le CVUH (Comit\u00e9 de vigilance face aux usages publics de l\u2019Histoire<\/em>) le 4 mars 2006 sous le titre: “Sur les usages publics de l’histoire. Pol\u00e9miques, comm\u00e9morations, enjeux de m\u00e9moire, transmission et enseignement”. Le CVUH, qui groupe plus de 75 historiens (parmi lesquels Claude-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Perrot (*) et Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch) est n\u00e9 d\u2019une r\u00e9action \u00e0 la loi francaise du 23 f\u00e9vrier 2005 dont l\u2019article 4 exigeait des enseignants qu’ils insistent sur \u00able r\u00f4le positif\u00bb de la colonisation et a r\u00e9agi par le publication d\u2019un manifeste dat\u00e9 du 17 juin 2005 (on en trouvera le texte sur le site: http:\/\/cvuh.free.fr\/manifeste.html<\/a>). Lors de la journ\u00e9e du 6 mars, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch avait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 une communication intitul\u00e9e: \u201cLe Pass\u00e9 colonial entre histoire et m\u00e9moire\u201d dont on pourra retrouver le texte sur le site : http:\/\/cvuh.free.fr\/4mars\/coquery.passe.colonial.html<\/a> (une version sonore existe \u00e0 : http:\/\/cvuh.free.fr\/4mars\/coquery.mp3<\/a>) Le texte et\/ou l\u2019enregistrement (sonore ou video) des autres communications est accessible \u00e0 partir du site http:\/\/cvuh.free.fr\/4mars\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Dans le prolongement de la journ\u00e9e du 4 mars 2006, le CVUH a organis\u00e9, \u00e0 partir de janvier 2007 une s\u00e9rie de conferences ouvertes \u00e0 tous. Ces conf\u00e9rences, qui se tiennent dans la salle Marc Bloch (UFR d\u2019Histoire), 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris Ve, proposent des mises au point hitoriographiques accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019une analyses sur l\u2019ctualit\u00e9 des \u201cusages publics\u201d de l\u2019histoire. Dans cette s\u00e9rie, Catherine Cooquery-Vidrovitch donnera une conference intitul\u00e9e: \u201cLa France postcoloniale en question: enjeux et action\u201d le Jeudi 14 juin 2007 \u00e0 19h00 dans la salle Marc Bloch (UFR d\u2019Histoire), 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris Ve. Pour le programme complet de cette s\u00e9rie, voir: http:\/\/cvuh.free.fr\/images\/conf.cvuh.2007.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

@ Copies of the latest edition of the GRAF Directory<\/strong>, listing names, addresses, phone, fax & e-mail number of GRAF affiliates and participants in the October 1994 and May 1997 conferences can be purchased for US$3.00 per unit (postage included) through the same procedure as other GRAF publications.<\/p>\n

@ Kassim Kone (*)<\/strong> and Ilyas Ba-Yunus<\/strong> have co-authored a book titled \u201cMuslims in the United States\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Greenwood CT, Greenwood Press, 2006; 192 pages, tables; $55.00 – ISBN: 0-313-32825-0 – ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32825-1). Kassim Kone\u2019s article, \u201cWhen male becomes female and female becomes male in Mande\u201d, published in Wagadu<\/em>, vol. 1 (Spring 2004) is available online at: http:\/\/web.cortland.edu\/wagadu\/Volume%201\/Printable\/kone.pdf<\/a>. An earlier version of this article had appeared in Mande Studies<\/em> (4), 2002.<\/p>\n

@ Fran\u00e7ois Ibara (*)<\/strong> is scheduled to present a paper titled \u201cBuilding a culture of peace in Congo-Brazzaville\u201d as part of a panel \u201cAfrican cultural values and Peace building\u201d<\/em> at the 16th Annual Africa\/Diaspora Conference to be held April 26-28, 2007 in Sacramento CA. The conference is organized by the College of Health & Human Services and the Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution in collaboration with the Pan African Studies Program at California Sacramento University, and its theme is: \u201cBuilding a Culture of Peace in Africa: Best Practices\/Models\u201d.<\/p>\n

@ Fallou Ngom (*)<\/strong> has presented two papers on the use of language analysis in asylum applications by African refugees at the University of Texas, Austin (March 2006) and at the 2d European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics \/ Language and the Law held on September 14-16 at the Institut Universitari de Ling\u00fcistica Aplicada in Barcelona. He has also contributed a section on \u201cArabic Loanwords in Wolof\u201d in the \u201cEncyclopedia of Arabic Language And Linguistics\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, ed. by Kees Versteegh (Brill Academic Publishers, 2007 ; $267.00 – ISBN-10: 9004144765 – ISBN-13: 978-9004144767).<\/p>\n

(*) Names listed in the GRAF Directory \/ Noms figurant \u00e0 l’annuaire du GRAF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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@ Catherine Boone’s (*) acclaimed work, \u201cMerchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal\u201d, originally published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press, is now available in a paperback edition (317 pp., tables; $48.00 – ISBN-13:9780521030397 | ISBN-10:0521030390). @ Lucy Creevey (*), Richard Vengroff (*) & Paul Ngomo, have co-authored \u201cParty Politics and Different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4086,6779],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/19172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}